Database outsourcing is an important emerging trend which involves data owners delegating their data management needs to an external service provider. Since a service provider is a...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
This paper proposes the compression of data in Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) using existing text compression algorithms. Although the technique proposed is general...
Efficient full-text searching is a big challenge in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system. Recently, Distributed Hash Table (DHT) becomes one of the reliable communication schemes for P2P. Som...
Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...